TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON – JULY 15 2018
1099 City of Jerusalem is captured and plundered by Christian forces during the First Crusade
1381 John Ball, a leader in the Peasants’ Revolt, is hung, drawn and quartered in the presence of Richard II of England
1410 Poles and Lithuanians defeat the Teutonic knights at Tannenberg, Prussia.
1685 The Duke of Monmouth is executed in Tower Hill in England.
1799 The Rosetta Stone is found in the Egyptian village of Rosetta by French Captain Pierre-François Bouchard during Napoleon’s Egyptian Campaign
1813 Napoleon Bonaparte’s representatives meet with the Allies in Prague to discuss peace terms.
1869 Margarine was patented in France by Hippolyte Mege Mouries.
1870 Georgia became the last of the Confederate States to be readmitted to the Union.
1895 Ex-prime minister of Bulgaria, Stepfan Stambolov, is murdered by Macedonian rebels.
1901 Over 74,000 Pittsburgh steel workers go on strike.
1904 The first Buddhist temple in the U.S. was established in Los Angeles, CA.
1922 The duck-billed platypus arrived in America, direct from Australia. It was exhibited at the Bronx Zoo in New York City.
1945 Italy formally declared war on Japan, a former Axis partner.
1958 Five thousand U.S. Marines landed in Beirut, Lebanon, to protect the pro-Western government. The troops withdrew October 25, 1958.
1976 An entire school bus of twenty six children and the driver are kidnapped in Chowchilla, California by three gunmen. They are then forced into a moving van which had been buried underground in a quarry in Livermore, California.
1979 President Jimmy Carter In a live speech to the American people blamed the long period of recession in the US, on the effects of OPEC’s 1973 cuts in oil production and the increases in fuel prices which in turn fueled inflationary pressures.
1981 Steven Ford, son of former President Gerald R. Ford, appeared in a seduction scene of “The Young and the Restless” on CBS-TV. Ford played the part of Andy.
1994 Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 collides with Jupiter
1995 Ethnic Cleansing by Bosnian Serbs in the “SAFE AREA” of Srebrenica with tales of rape, massacres and psychological torture, the 40,000 women, children and elderly people who were under the protection of Dutch peacekeepers have been forced to flee what was set up as a “Safe Haven” because peacekeeping forces did not have the mandate to stop Serb forces taking over the town.
1996 MSNBC is launched The American news television channel was created by Microsoft and General Electric’s NBC unit. The first show of the channel was hosted by Jodi Applegate.
2006 The UN Security Council imposed sanctions on North Korea after the country tested a long-range missile and several shorter-ranged missiles earlier in the month. The vote was unanimous.
2010 After 86 days of gushing oil into the Gulf of Mexico and several previous attempts to contain the flow, BP caps its leaking oil well.
2011 The United States State department officially recognized the TNC, the Libyan opposition, as Libya’s “legitimate governing authority”.
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